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    Pikemen

    Creature — Human Soldier

    Pikemen

    Illustrated by Dan Frazier

    €0.13$0.20—
    EDHREC Rank #22,772
    ScryfallEDHREC
    First strike; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

    "As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. 'Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

    Rulings (4)

    If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.

    Oct 1, 2009

    Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

    Oct 1, 2008

    A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

    Oct 1, 2008

    Legality

    Formats by platform

    Commander

    Competitive

    Community & retro

    Printings (5)

    Pikemen — Fifth Edition
    5ED#52$0.20
    Fifth Edition
    Pikemen — Renaissance
    REN#18$1.95
    Renaissance